John Moreland “Old Wounds” (Ann Arbor FF, 1 February 2020)

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Go see him in concert when this blasted pandemic ends. He’s been making great albums since 2011, I had read about him, his music, his lyrics, but this was the first time I had seen him perform more than one song and I was completely unprepared for what a great singer he is. “Old Wounds” is from his fourth album Big Bad Luv (4AD, 2017).

“I wanna fall asleep forever
I wanna learn to disappear
Can you take away the mess, that's been building in my chest
Drowning out the song I used to hear
Love's a violent word, don't you forget it
I ain't saying that you ever could
I've seen my seasons change
I was crying out your name
Remember when we used to feel so good

So don't forget to love me in damnation
For the living I have earned on love gone wrong
And we'll open up old wounds in celebration
If we don't bleed, it don't feel like a song
You got your honest intuition
You got your cigarette smoke
And I'm all your oldest fears, the black mark on last year
But I got the hope you let me hold
So let them judge and shove us under
And let them do the devil's work
Let them calculate the crimes in all our broken rhymes
But let us find the heaven following the hurt

So don't forget to love me in damnation
For the living I have earned on love gone wrong
And we'll open up old wounds in celebration
If we don't bleed, it don't feel like a song”

Видео John Moreland “Old Wounds” (Ann Arbor FF, 1 February 2020) канала LJSimon